Commander of the Elbe-Weser naval defense

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Structure of the Maritime Command Elbe-Weser
British air raid on Heligoland on April 18, 1945
The Heligoland naval base in World War II

The commandant of the Elbe-Weser naval defense , or Maritime Commander Elbe-Weser for short , was a regional coastal commander in the German Navy during World War II , who was subordinate to the commanding admiral German Bight . The office was set up in November 1944 with its seat in Otterndorf and continued under Allied supervision until January 1946 until January 1946. From 1944 to 1946 Rear Admiral Rolf Johannesson was the only sea ​​commander .

structure

The Elbe-Weser sea command consisted of four sections and several directly subordinate units.

The Marine Flak Departments were set up from 1938, see Marine Flak .

Associations directly subordinate to them

  • Naval Fortress Pioneer Staff 2 ( Cuxhaven - Sahlenburg )
    • Naval Fortress Pioneer Battalion 314 (Sahlenburg)
    • Naval Fortress Pioneer Battalion 360 ( Bremervörde )
  • 4th Marine Motor Vehicle Department (Cuxhaven)

Wesermünde-Bremerhaven section

The coastal area east of the Weser belonged to the Wesermünde-Bremerhaven section.

Departments 244 and 264 had positions in Weddewarden , Langlütjen , Langen , Grebswarden , Spaden , Schiffdorf , Stotel and Ellwürden . The command post was in Einswarden .

Section Heligoland

The Helgoland section included the island of Helgoland including the neighboring dune , see Helgoland lighthouse .

  • Marine Artillery Division 122
  • Marine Flak Department 242

Section Cuxhaven

10.5 cm anti-aircraft gun in Fort Kugelbake in Cuxhaven

Responsible for the south side of the Elbe estuary including the islands of Scharhörn and Neuwerk .

  • Port Protection Flotilla Cuxhaven
  • 4. Replacement Marine Artillery Department (Cuxhaven)
  • Marine Flak Department 214 ( Fort Kugelbake , Cuxhaven) with positions in Fort Kugelbake , Neufeld , Drangst and Altenbruch
  • 4th Marine Motor Vehicle Department (Cuxhaven)

Section Brunsbüttel

The Brunsbüttel section included the northern side of the Elbe estuary and the Schleswig-Holstein west coast south of the Eider estuary .

  • former 8th Marine Flak Regiment (Brunsbüttel) (The regimental commander's task was performed by the commander in the section.)
    • Marine Flak Department 224 ( Wilhelmsburg - Hademarschen )
    • Marine Flak Department 254 ( Sandhayn )
    • Marine Flak Department 274 (Brunsbüttel)
    • Navy Flak Department 294 ( Balje )
    • 10th Marine Fog Department (Brunsbüttel-Zweidorf)

literature

  • Walter Lohmann , Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter IX, chapter 6
  • Rolf Johannesson: Officer in a critical time. Published by the German Marine Institute with the support of the Military History Research Office . ES Mittler & Sohn, Herford and Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-8132-0301-8 . 2nd edition, edited by Heinrich Walle, Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg 2016 (autobiography)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter Lohmann, Hans H. Hildebrand. The German Navy 1939-1945 . Compilation in three volumes. OO 1956. Volume I, main chapter IX, chapter 6, p. 10 f.
  2. ↑ Flak protection in the greater Bremerhaven area (religte.com)
  3. ↑ Picture of the Flak control center Weddewarden
  4. ↑ Reinhold Thiel: The Bremen air defense in World War II (8th Flak Division) . HM Hauschild, Bremen 1995. ISBN 978-3-929902-34-1 .
  5. ^ Chronicle Grebswarden September 2, 1940 to April 14, 1943.
  6. ↑ Burchard Scheper: Die Flakhelfer 1944/45 (Flakhelfer in the Battery Spaden)
  7. ↑ The flak protection in the greater Cuxhaven area (religte.com)